Pannell, David J.; Hailu, Getu; Weersink, Alfons; Burt, … - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007
negatively related to basis risk, to quantity risk, and to transaction costs. Farmers who have less uncertainty about prices have … incentive to hedge can be greatly reduced. And finally, farmers who have low levels of risk aversion have little to gain from … hedging in terms of risk reduction, in that the certainty equivalent payoff at their optimal hedge may be little different to …